About Us
The Science & Technology Action Committee is a group of 25 non-profit, academic, foundation, and corporate leaders working to dramatically strengthen U.S. science and technology.
Co-Chairs

Bill Novelli

Sudip Parikh, Ph.D.

Mary Woolley

Keith Yamamoto, Ph.D.
Members

Georges C. Benjamin, M.D.
Executive Director, American Public Health Association
Bob Conn, Ph.D.
Distinguished Policy Fellow, School of Public Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego
Michael M. Crow
President, Arizona State University
The Honorable Charlie Dent
Former Republican Representative from Pennsylvania
Victor Dzau, M.D.
President, National Academy of Medicine
Arthur C. Evans, JR., Ph.D.
CEO, American Psychological Association
Harvey V. Fineberg, M.D., Ph.D.
President, Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation
Dario Gil, Ph.D.
IBM Senior Vice President and Director of Research
The Honorable Bart Gordon
Partner, K&L Gates LLP and former representative from Tennessee, 1985-2011
Margaret “Peggy” Hamburg, M.D.
President of InterAcademy Partnership and former FDA Commissioner
John J. Hamre, Ph.D.
President and CEO, Center for Strategic and International Studies
India Hook-Barnard, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Engineering Biology Research Consortium
Kristina M. Johnson, Ph.D.
Founder and CEO of KMJ and Associates, and former President of the Ohio State University and former Under Secretary, US Department of Energy
Tom Kalil
CEO, Renaissance Philanthropy
Neal Lane, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow in Science and Technology Policy, Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and former Director, National Science Foundation
Alan Leshner, Ph.D.
CEO Emeritus, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Marcia McNutt, Ph.D.
President, the National Academy of Sciences
Erin K. O’Shea, Ph.D.
President, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Euan Robertson
Chief Operating Officer, Simons Foundation
Rafael Reif, Ph.D.
President Emeritus, Ray and Maria Stata Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Elias Zerhouni, M.D.
Professor Emeritus Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University and former Director, National Institutes of Health, 2002-2008Funders
We wish to express our thanks to the many organizations and individuals who provide funding for the Science & Technology Action Committee. Your contributions and support are very much appreciated.
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Kavli Foundation
The Johns Hopkins University
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
IBM Corporation
Lyda Hill Philanthropies
Breakthrough Energy Action
Sergey Brin Family Foundation
Schmidt Futures
Kristina M. Johnson, PH.D
Simons Foundation International (SFI)
Staff
Sheila Murphy
Vice President, Advocacy Programs and Initiatives, Research!America
Shilpa Rajan
Director, Science and Technology Action Committee, Research!America
Endorsers
Academy for Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research
Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s Initiative
American Anthropological Association
American Association of Physics Teachers
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Educational Research Association
American Heart Association
American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
American Institute of Biological Sciences
American Mathematical Society
American Physiological Society
American Psychological Association
American Public Health Association
American Society for Virology
American Society of Human Genetics
American Society of Plant Biologists
American Sociological Association
Amgen
Arizona State University
Association for Psychological Science
Association for Women in Science
Association of American Universities
Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities
Association of Science and Technology Centers
City of Milpitas
Coalition for Life Sciences
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Consortium for Ocean Leadership
Consortium of Social Science Associations
Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics
Council of Scientific Society Presidents
Council on Competitiveness
County of Santa Clara
Covington & Burling LLP
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
Entomological Society of America
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Georgia Institute of Technology
Global Council for Science and the Environment
Global Healthy Living Foundation
Google, Inc.
Helminthological Society of Washington
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
IBM
Indiana University
Institute for Systems Biology
Johns Hopkins University
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology
Lasker Foundation
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Lupus and Allied Diseases Association, Inc.
Mary Ann Liebert Inc.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
National Academy of Medicine
National Association for Biomedical Research
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
National Science Policy Network
Natural Science Collections Alliance
New York Academy of Medicine
Patrick Risha CTE Awareness Foundation
PBM Foundation
Population Association of America
Research!America
Rice University
Rosalind Franklin Society
Royal Caribbean International
ScienceCounts
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Solve ME/CFS Initiative
Stanford University
Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University Kingsville
The Helminthological Society of Washington
The Ohio State University
United States Pharmacopeia
University of California San Francisco
University of California System
University of Oklahoma
University of Oregon
University of Wah
VHL Alliance
Weill Cornell Medicine
Wells Fargo & Co.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute